M. Pia De Girolamo Contemporary Artwork

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Category: Abstract Painting

Fresh Work-Come and Get It!

Door to the Desert by M. Pia De Girolamo 2012© Acrylic on Canvas 36' x 36' In my last blog post I mentioned starting a group of paintings and monotypes that “talk to each other” and mesh texture, graphics, color, form and space.  Windows by...

Sneak Peek

Door and Boat (working title) by M. Pia De Girolamo © 2012. 36" x 36"  Acrylic and found objects on canvas.  I’ve been making a lot of monoprints lately, having set up a space in my basement and also working at Main Line Art Center on the big etching...

Art Exercises

Large and small canvas tacked to wall in my studio. Making art can be a very physical activity. In fact, I once looked up how many calories I burned while standing to paint and it turned out to be at least 100 calories/hour, and almost 200 cals/hour with “standing and vigorous...

Making a Painting is Like Raising a Child

Out and About, Acrylic on Canvas, 20" x 20", in progress Out and About, Acrylic on Canvas 20" x 20" , completed work Out and About, Acrylic on Canvas 20" x 20" , Really completed work (I mean it this time!) After I have prepared a canvas with gesso and...

"I Never Imagined I'd Like this Kind of Art..."

Bridge   Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas   42" x 48" …That’s what my 82 years-young Mom said to me recently about my paintings, usually labeled “abstract”. Here is a quote from her reply: “I never really liked modern art I think...

Another Way In

Mixed media drawing, from Psalm 28 "...for he has heard the sound of my pleading."   There it was, Resistance (as Steven Pressfield calls it in his The War of Art ) barring the studio door.  And it wasn’t going away.  I needed a way in. After months of...
 
 

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